He also delivered boats to Hawaii the Cayman Islands Pacific Northwest Panama Costa Rico Florida Keys and many harbors along the California Coastline.ģ3 image plates have been added showing sites I visited, as well as images from historical newspaper clippings.Ī Second Epilogue has been added regarding my life twenty years later. Previously he work in Information Technology for twelve years. The history within this memoir includes the trials and travails of the 'two-gun fighters' Robert Hollimon and Matt Burts assorted cow detectives and range riders the ghost of an upset payroll robber, severed Paiute heads train robbers bootleggers the Death Valley Lee Brothers, and more.ĭavid lives and works on a ranch in Northern New Mexico. The memoir is written with a unique voice well-suited for story-telling, and includes original research of the USA Southwest and the Mojave Desert.

After living alone in a cave for twenty-nine months in the desolate Avawatz Mountain Range, David shares with readers hysterically funny yarns about how he dealt with tarantulas, excessively annoying tourists, traveling preachers, boot-stealing desert varmints, foul water, a hungry owl forty feet tall, irate fathers, and sheriff deputies in hot pursuit of him.

Desert Soliloquy by David Rice